Jan Borm, director of MIARC, has been invited by UNIPOP (Université populaire – The people’s university), the Jean Eustache cinema and the Festival of History Films in Pessac (near Bordeaux, France) to give a talk about Jean Malaurie.
The lecture entitled: « Jean Malaurie : 70 ans d’actions en faveur des peuples premiers du Grand Nord » (Jean Malaurie: 70 years of support of the indigenous peoples of the Far North) will be deliver within the framework of their guest lecture cycle (15th season this academic year).
Jan Borm will retrace Jean Malaurie’s continuous, 70-year long action and efforts in favour of Indigenous peoples across the globe, be it in his own research and writing about the Arctic or across the near 100 volumes of his famous book series « Terre Humaine », in which he published his own great classic account of life in Greenland in the early 1950s The Last Kings of Thule (1955) and Claude Lévi-Strauss’ equally seminal Tristes Tropiques (also 1955), or as UNESCO Good-Will Ambassador for the polar regions.
